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US envoy undergoes 'sudden memory flash' after reviewing others' testimonies on military 'quid pro quo'


RT
Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:36 UTC
Gordon Sondland
© Reuters/Erin Scott.jpgAmbassador Gordon Sondland arrives at House impeachment proceedings
The US ambassador to the EU has suddenly remembered he did notify Kiev that military aid was contingent on launching a corruption probe into the gas company that employed Hunter Biden, his memory jogged by impeachment testimonies.

Ambassador Gordon Sondland said he did, after all, tell an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that US military aid to the country depended on Zelensky publicly pledging to open a corruption investigation into Burisma Holdings, the natural gas company which had hired Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden's son onto its board of directors. Sondland recalled this in an addendum to his earlier testimony, leaked to the public on Tuesday.

Sondland's surprise recollection was, he claimed, motivated by reading the testimony of William Taylor, US ambassador to Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, a former Trump advisor. In an explanation that borders on self-parody ("Ambassador Taylor recalls that Mr. Morrison told Ambassador Taylor that I told Mr. Morrison that I had conveyed this message to Mr. Yermak...") the diplomat appeared to be trying to reconcile his previous sworn testimony from October 17 with that of his colleagues.

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Stock Up

China's trade war gamble against Trump's rural base boomerangs

Chriss Street
The Epoch Times
Mon, 04 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Farm
© Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty ImagesFarmer plows his field in agricultural town of Eaton, Colorado. 77% of the town's registered voters cast their ballots for Trump in 2016.
China's tariffs targeting President Donald Trump's rural base have boomeranged with farm income hitting a 5-year high of $88 billion and in the top 30 percent after inflation.

China was very aware the key to Trump's 2016 presidential victory was the 11 percent collapse of Democrat voting in rural districts that fell from 45 percent in 2008 to 34 percent in 2016. The only demographic Hillary Clinton won was metropolitan cities with over a million population that she won by 55.4 percent to Trump's 40.1 percent.

As documented by a recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, China used targeted trade war tariffs to specifically interfere with the political outcomes of the U.S. House of Representatives 2018 midterm elections. The NBER demonstrated that tariffs focused on U.S. election competitive "battleground" counties and caused "3.8 percentage point decline in consumption growth" in 2017 and 2018.

The U.S. media has relentlessly highlighted U.S. Courts Chapter 12 data for the 12-month period ending September 2019 that reported farm bankruptcies totaled 580 filings, up 24 percent from the prior year and the highest level since 676 filings in 2011.

The American Farm Bureau Federation did report that U.S. agricultural exports declined by about 5 percent to $78.5 billion in the twelve months through July 2019. But the Trump administration's $117 billion in U.S. tariffs is funding $33 billion of trade tariff assistance, disaster assistance, farm bill and insurance indemnities that will flow to farmers and ranchers by year-end. As a result, Chapter 12 bankruptcies decreased by 2 percent in the third quarter of 2019.
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Bad Guys

Delusional: UK government hopes to tap nostalgia - pushes ahead with plans for 'festival of Brexit'

Ben Quinn
The Guardian
Tue, 05 Nov 2019 19:14 UTC
1951 Festival of Britain
© Harrison/Getty ImagesThe event was originally intended to carry echoes of the 1951 Festival of Britain.
Figures from arts institutions fear 2022 event could alienate remain-supporting visitors

Boris Johnson's government is pressing ahead with a controversial post-Brexit festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, inherited from Theresa May, but which the new prime minister had been urged to shelve.

Dean Creamer, a delivery director for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, has been put in charge of planning for the £120m project - dubbed the "festival of Brexit" by critics - which is due to take place in 2022, the Guardian has learned.

However, figures from arts institutions have privately expressed concern about the project, which some say is likely to alienate remain-supporting visitors at museums and galleries that are expected to take part.

Comment: In the face of cuts to the NHS, the alarming increase in homelessness, the out of control legal and illegal immigration problem and the deterioration of London as a liveable city, clueless Boris Johnson want to throw a party for deal that hasn't even been closed yet.

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Light Saber

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard slams Killary remarks as 'demeaning' in latest appearance on 'The View'


ABC News
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:21 UTC
Gabbard supporters
© Mike Segar/ReutersDemocratic Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard greets supporters after filing her declaration of candidacy papers to appear on the 2020 New Hampshire primary election ballot at the State House in Concord, New Hampshire, Nov. 5, 2019.
In her third appearance on the show this year, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, appeared on The View Wednesday fighting back against those who have questioned her loyalty, calling the comments made against her "demeaning."
"It's offensive to me as a soldier, as an American, as a member of congress, as a veteran, and frankly as a woman, to be so demeaned in this way," Gabbard told the hosts. "I am a patriot, I love our country ... I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, security and freedom of all Americans in this country."
Last month, Gabbard engaged in a tussle with former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who told David Plouffe on "Campaign HQ", a podcast run by the 2008 Obama campaign manager, that a female 2020 candidate was a "favorite of the Russians" and is being "groomed" by Republicans for a third-party run.

Comment: Tulsi caving to pressure on the impeachment question? How sad. As for the screeching leftist hen party that is The View, it's a shame that she feels she has to appear there to have to get her message out.

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Megaphone

Trump Jr. outs CIA whistleblower on Twitter - MSM meltdown ensues

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:07 UTC
Donald Trump, Jr.
© Scott Olson/Getty ImagesDonald Trump, Jr.
Drama ensued on Wednesday after Donald Trump Jr. tweeted a Breitbart News article which contained the name of the alleged Trump-Ukraine whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella.

The article, written by Breitbart senior investigative reporter New York Times bestselling author and Aaron Klein, details how Ciaramella was central to the Obama administration's Ukraine policy - including the eventual signing of a $1 billion US loan guarantee after former VP Joe Biden pressured them into firing the guy investigating an energy company paying his son to sit on their board, Burisma Holdings.

Comment: Wonder if Eric Ciaramella really understood what he'd signed on for when he agreed to front this hare-brained scheme.

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Russian Flag

ICYMI: Comrade Cummings? Election season launches Russian stooge blame game - UK edition!


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:04 UTC
icymi polly boyko russian flag
© RT
It's election season in the UK, and that can mean only one thing - it's time to win some votes by making accusations of Russian stoogery, and all sides are at it.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's top political adviser Dominic Cummings has been accused of shady links to Moscow, mainly because he spent some time in Russia over 20 years ago. These days, that's all it takes.

Here's ICYMI's guide to the other Russian stooges to keep your eye on this election season, UK edition.


Comment: "You're a Russian agent!" "No, YOU'RE a Russian agent!" UK politics in a nutshell.

Just this morning, Comrade Johnson called out Comrade Corbyn and Labour for "siding with Putin": "Come with us, a government that believes Britain should stand tall in the world. Or go with Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party who sided with Putin when Russia ordered poisonings on the streets of Salisbury."



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TV

Best of the Web: MSM execs part of 'network of people' that covered for Epstein - Project Veritas founder to RT


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:08 UTC
Project Veritas James O'Keefe
© RT
ABC and other mainstream media outlets refused to cover accusations against sex predator Jeffrey Epstein because "a network of people" that includes their executives were implicated, James O'Keefe of Project Veritas told RT.

The Disney-owned network has doubled down on its insistence that anchor Amy Robach's story on Epstein three years ago lacked "enough corroboration" and thus wasn't aired. This was after Project Veritas released a "hot mic" video of Robach slamming the decision to quash the story.

The conservative filmmaker told RT on Tuesday that he believes ABC's refusal to budge from that explanation backs up Robach's claim that "a network of people" - including the executives running her channel - are "covering up for this" because they are somehow "implicated."


Comment: Here's that bombshell Project Veritas report again:



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Star of David

'Crushing blow to freedoms:' Israel's top court greenlights deportation of Human Rights Watch director

Bel Trew
The Independent
Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:04 UTC
Omar Shakir
© ReutersOmar Shakir
Israel's top court has ordered the expulsion of Human Rights Watch's country director in a landmark case rights groups have called "a crushing blow to freedoms".

Omar Shakir, a US citizen and the watchdog's director for Israel and the Palestinian territories, was accused of supporting boycotts of the country based in part on pro-Palestinian comments he had made in the past.

In July, Mr Shakir lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court against an earlier court decision to revoke his work and residency permit and issue a deportation order.

The lower court initially argued that previous statements Mr Shakir made as a student and his Human Rights Watch (HRW) activities on Israel's West Bank settlements amounted to support for the pro-Palestinian "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" (BDS) movement.
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Mr. Potato

'Ban things I don't like': Elizabeth Warren slams Twitter's new ban on political ads after urging Facebook to censor opponents


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:09 UTC
Elizabeth Warren
© Reuters / Mike Blake
Democratic 2020 hopeful Elizabeth Warren can't seem to make up her mind on the correct course for big tech, first attacking Facebook's ad policies as too lax, then Twitter's as too strict. Perhaps they should make her CEO.

Senator Warren (D-Massachusetts), who has vowed to break up tech giants she deems too large or powerful, took to Twitter on Tuesday to denounce the platform's upcoming policy change banning all political ads, arguing the new rule helps the spread of misinformation about climate change.

"Twitter's new ad policy will allow fossil fuel companies to buy ads defending themselves and spreading misleading info - but won't allow organizations fighting the climate crisis to buy ads holding those companies accountable," Warren tweeted, adding: "We need accountability."
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Eye 2

Warmongers: Video shows US weapons arriving in Yemen despite objections of Congress


Sputnik
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:50 UTC
US weapons in Yemen
© AP Photo / Jon Gambrell
Newly obtained video footage shows that a shipment of US-made heavy weapons arrived in Yemen last week despite efforts by American lawmakers to prevent such arms transfers, CNN reported on Wednesday.

The footage shows an Oshkosh armoured vehicle and other US-made military hardware being unloaded from a ship under the cover of darkness in the early morning hours at the port in the southern city of Aden, CNN reported.

The vessel, identified as the Saudi-registered Bahri Hofuf, is known to have stopped at the Port City of Jeddah on September 17 before sailing on to Port Sudan the following day, the report said, citing port documents, tracking data, and whistleblower accounts.


Comment: Well, what do you expect from the US - that it'll stop arming terrorist groups, proxy armies and mercenaries - when there is so much money to be made and chaos to be engendered - just because of some resolution by Congress???

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